Title from ISTC; imprint derived from colophon ([35]₈ recto): Iuris h[abe]nt late hec decerpta uolumi[n]a sacri Pisaei artificis nomina parta sui. Quaeq[ue] ill[is] desu[n]t alt[er] nou[us] addidit auctor Semine quo caruit accumulauit ag[rum]. Ve[n]delinus opus pressit spireus vtrunq[ue] Labe repurgatu[m] (crede) volume[n] emis. Impressum est Sixto sacro[rum] antistite 4°. Et veneto troni principis imperio.

Printed, per the colophon, during the rule of Doge Tron. His death occurred July 28, 1473. Consult Goff N57

Leaf [1]₂ recto: In no[m]i[n]e d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ih[es]u xp̄i ame[n]. Incipit lib[er] qui dicit[ur] suppleme[n]tu[m].

Signatures: [1-4¹⁰ 5¹² 6-8¹⁰ 9-10¹² 11-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18-20¹⁰ 21⁶ 22-23¹⁰ 24-25⁸ 26¹⁰ 27-28⁸ 29-34¹⁰ 35⁸] ([1]₁=blank; all leaves unsigned).

Median folio; printed in double columns, [1]₄ recto: 46 lines per column, 227 x 150 mm; types: 200G (headings), 99G (text); initial spaces with and without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 163

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N57

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, *2150

Incunabula short title catalogue, in00057000

This work is a revision and enlargement of the Summa Pisanella, or, Magistrutia of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.5 FOLIO imperfect: first leaf (blank) wanting. Rubricated in alternating red or blue with purple flourishes. Capital strokes in yellow and paragraph markers in red. Large initial on [1]₂ illuminated. Leaf dimensions: 335 x 228 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.5 FOLIO with bookplate of the BPL Phillips Fund. BPL embossed stamp on title page. Early marginal annotations, in multiple hands, throughout, with corrections and additions, some of which are rubricated. Early inscription on [1]₂ recto, in Italian, tabulating the number of gatherings in 6s, 10s, and 12s. Purchased Sept. 1882.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.5 FOLIO bound in red ca. 19th-century sheepskin paneled and tooled in gilt and rebacked in red goatskin. Spine title stamped in gilt.

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